Word: fisherman
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...Cardinal Wojtyla, the Fisherman's shoes...
...Francisco Bay Area, combines the story of a Pacific Heights dynasty, corporate shenanigans, Chinatown gangs, a spectrum of sex, aging flower children, Mafia money and the houseboat life in Sausalito. The result is as nerve-rattling as a full-throttle auto chase from Grant Avenue to Fisherman's Wharf...
...inheritance that makes Europeans think that the church is only Western. All that tightness that makes them fail to understand that young countries like mine want something different. They want simplicity. They want Jesus Christ. All that, all that must change." Fifty hours later, Karol Wojtyla stepped into the fisherman's shoes and, in incalculable ways, perhaps the change has begun...
...center of this tour de force is The Fisherman and His Wife, the folk tale about the man who releases his magic catch after the fish promises to grant his wishes. In the traditional version, the fisherman's wife, Hsebill, ruins good fortune with her greed. In Grasss ich-theology, the ageless narrator tells his equally timeless mate Ilsebill how he threw the fish back into the Baltic after it had agreed to bring him knowledge of the outside world...
...beginning is prehistoric. Grass's fisherman and his fellows live in a matriarchy, cared for and suckled by the three-breasted Awa. In this age before Prometheus, women have stolen fire from the gods and rule through the cooking pot. But the Flounder, "like a swimming newspaper," gives man the crucial information that begins male domination: fire can also be used to smelt metal from rock, and metal can be forged into spearheads and axes. Thus is born man's wanderlust, his will to strive and conquer, his ability to make myths and reason to tragic absurdities...